Rev. Pk Fitzpatrick

A useful tool, 18 April 2013

Cutting edge academia with 'work place' applicability. This book addresses a real classroom need and is, in my view, required reading for those aspiring to education leadership. Good Stuff!

Very well researched and presented, 25 July 2012

I purchased John Guy's superb new biography of Thomas Becket as the Archbishop was central to my MTh dissertation. Uniquely, Guy uses the first third of the book to unravelling the complexity and egocentricity of Henry II's court. I was struck at how similar some institutions operations are today. Guy builds upon Barlow's very strong (revolutionary) academic work on Becket (from some 15 years ago) but covers the historic background in much greater detail and utilises this information in informing Barlow's research and well as developing his arguments. This is useful because it provides a reasonable (and well argued) explanation for the change in Beckets behaviour after his ordination to… Read more

Bereavement and loss in early years, 28 Mar 2012

Firstly, let me admit that I reviewed this book prior to publishing. I am a university academic working and researching bereavement. This book, using positive narrative deployment and continuing bonds theroy, is a much need addition to childrens litreture on bereavement and loss. It provides a useful tool for classroom and the home for introducing young children to the concept of serious loss and (by cleaver storytelling) how they will navigate their way through it. I strongly commed it not only for when a child has encountered death, but as a very good general reading book as the subject area is in the national curriculum. The book, which focuses on a class dealing with the loss of a… Read more